My Interview For Ho Ho Hong Kong Podcast
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Over the weekend, Vivek Mahbubani and Mohammed Magdi interviewed me for their podcast Ho Ho Hong Kong. We talked about the crazy events that led to my arrest in December 2019, the various illegal things that the government did after that to secure a bogus conviction, and my subsequent imprisonment in Lai Chi Kok and Stanley. Here’s a two-minute preview clip, with links to the full podcast under that.
#89 - How did American lawyer Samuel Bickett end up in a Hong Kong prison?
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In December 2019, American Lawyer Samuel Bickett was leaving Causeway Bay MTR station when he saw a couple of older men in plain civilian clothes beating up a teenager with a baton. He tried to stop them and ended up getting arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer despite the men repeatedly saying that they're not police officers. He ended up spending over 2 months in a Hong Kong maximum security prison and he's now out on bail waiting for the next hearing. We sit down with Sam and get the full story.
Writing in Traditional Chinese is a political issue in ChiCom's eyes. Simplified Chinese is Mao's Chinese. On surface Mao claimed to push simplified Chinese to make language accessible to farmers, but it's made so that people can read Mao's propaganda but cannot read the history so Mao cannot be contradicted. Communists/socialists/Marxists are deeply against traditions, so wanting to learn traditional characters alone is enough grounds for Alibaba to reject you. Lol.
"The thing with these people (CCP), they don't give a shit about what the law says". That's spot on. Even Mafia have more honor than these ChiCom thugs. CCP doesn't even follow their own laws they pulled out of their asses without the assent from anybody. Red China is not a country, but just a huge land with 10bil people in a big minimum security jail created by a bunch of thugs, crooks and barbarians in suits who are good at marketing themselves.